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so, dot is always included?
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But understand that decimal is a variable-length datatype. So this number is 12 byte width, but other number could be less or more bytes, depending on the number of digits.<br />
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See this link for more information: <a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190476.aspx" rel="ugc">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190476.aspx</a><br />

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OK.<br />
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&gt;&gt;this number is 12 byte width, but other number could be less <br />
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you &nbsp;mean 6424.26 is 6 bytes and 11.1 is 3 bytes, right?
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in the link you provided<br />
<a href="http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190476.aspx" rel="ugc">http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms190476.aspx</a><br />
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it says int is 4 bytes only - is it because it lacks the decimal point and hence less storage used, as compared to the decimal?<br />
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Thanks for correcting that. helped.
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does it include the period (.) also?<br />
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642418216.00<br />
is this 11 or 12 bytes?<br />
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thanks
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does it include the period (.) also?

642418216.00
is this 11 or 12 bytes?

thanks

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